Saturday, December 20, 2025

Will Hillary Take Plutocratic ‘Clinton, Inc.’ Global?

Welcome to the new series, “The Hero of a Thousand Escapes.” What other celebrity political duo instantly transforms any election into melodrama at best, family intrigue at worse, rife with influence peddling, suspect donations, policy failures (NAFTA, health care), strategic blunders (Libya, Syria, China), and bungled secrecy that inevitably gets unmasked? The greatest downside to President Hillary is elevation of first female whose gender novelty promises no jolts to the grievous status quo nor confrontation to the plutocracy that funds it (and her). Forget her age: Hillary's range (and clientele) represent something new and more dangerous.

America: Lost with no moral compass

In 2014 a story broke about a high school football team hazing syndrome that regressed into sexual assaults by upperclassmen upon freshman...

Anti-American, anti-truth White House

Of course, Trump’s many lawyers are spreading fake news as fast as possible.

California is a garden of Eden

In case you don't think migrants can benefit the U.S., consider that 200,000 Dust Bowl migrants entered California.

Earth to Portland: Dispatch from the nation’s problem child

It’s time for us to show the world that Portland is a town of peace warriors. Let’s practice activism that everyone can participate in, including our children.

The ‘fog’ of democracy

the super rich who run corporate America AKA This Empire use the airwaves and media in general to push their right wing agenda. Sad.

Good Cops/ Bad Cops

“It is time for the myriad of good cops out there to speak up and speak out against their fellows in blue who shoot and kill the innocent and unarmed... Period!”

The parentized child presidency

Those of us who didn’t vote for Trump--the cast-off, disadvantaged children--will have to monitor Trump very closely.

The carbon capture plants that COP26 didn’t discuss

The time has come to stop viewing these plants with a blind eye and start to use them in an effective way.

Amerika 2019: A Woody Allen film?

In Woody Allen's 1973 film, Sleeper, a character wakes up in the future to learn that civilization was destroyed when "a man by the...